Sheringham Railway Station, Norfolk

Sheringham Railway Station, on the North Norfolk Railway. Opened in 1887 and extended in 1896, "[i]t was the built in the 'classic' E&M [Eastern Midland] pavilion style. The current station building, externally, is broadly similar to the extended station although where the buffet now is there was a parcels office and an open space under the overall canopy. The canopy has recently been faithfully restored in its original style" ("Sheringham Station").

Left to right: (a) Luggage trolley with period suitcases
etc. (b) Ironwork in the spandrels between columns and canopy girders. (c) Platform frontage with station clock.

Left to right: (a) The signal box, at the corner of Station Approach. (b) The signal. (c) Leaving the station and passing under a bridge.

Sheringham's present signal-box is situated on the site of the original "Sheringham West" one, although it has actually come from Wensum Junction. The steam locomotive show here is a later one: WD 90775, built in Glasgow in 1943, was actually used abroad, and only brought back for conservation. On this particular occasion, it is pulling a standard British Rail Mark 1 coach.

The coming of the railway was responsible for much of the late-Victorian and Edwardian development of Sheringham, which was once a quiet fishing village (see Pevsner and Wilson 149).

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